The OpenID membership has approved the following specifications as OpenID Implementer’s Drafts in the vote held from February 7th to 15th, 2012: • Basic Client Profile – Simple self-contained specification for a web-based Relying Party. (This spec contains a subset of the information in Messages and Standard.) • Discovery – Defines […]
The OpenID Foundation is launching its third OpenID Summits for 2011. This event is co-sponsored by Microsoft and will be held at the Microsoft Research Campus in Mountain View. The OpenID Foundation’s 2011 series of OpenID Summits focuses on use cases and topics of interest to key developers, executives and […]
There is now a set of functionally complete specifications for OpenID Connect. The diagram below shows the relationships between the current specs and contains links to each of them. These specifications are ready for early developer feedback and prototype implementation work. Please send feedback on them to the OpenID Artifact […]
Many in the open standards community have a “what have you done for me lately” chip implanted deep in their programming souls. It’s logical to want the evolution of OpenID technology to keep up with the rate of its adoption. We all want the pace of technology improvement to map […]
IIW is rapidly approaching. We plan to take advantage of face to face discussions on the around the next version of openID. For those attending and others I want to point to the various potions of the spec work so that people have that in hand for IIW. One of […]
by Jesse Stay Just before the latest Internet Identity Workshop, a few dozen members of the OpenID Foundation met at Facebook for a technology summit. Sessions ranged from the future of OpenID – looking at Connect and Artifact Binding – to details around profile data, signing, and encryption. Over the […]
The OpenID Foundation is pleased to share that OpenID Japan has launched with 32 members including merchants, portals, educational institutions, insurance companies, manufacturing companies, airlines, and banks. This announcement is significant for several reasons: The number and breadth of industries represented by the new members The use of OpenID by […]
This is a historic week for OpenID. Google and Microsoft announced the release of code to support OpenID 2.0 across their most important properties. On Monday, Microsoft, announced OpenID 2.0 support for their 460 million users on the LiveID platform. On Wednesday Google said it will be supporting OpenID 2.0 […]
AARP, AOL, BBC, Google, Hearst Magazines, JanRain, Meredith, MySpace, National 4-H, National Public Radio (NPR), The New York Times, Reed Business Information, Six Apart, Time Inc., Vidoop, and Yahoo meet in NY City for first OpenID Content Provider Advisory Committee meeting hosted by the BBC.
Last week mixi, the largest social network in Japan, become an OpenID Provider for all of their fifteen-million plus users; one in five Japanese web users are on mixi. While they are another large OpenID Provider — which some argue is a bad thing — they are the first large […]
